Exhibition with New Work at Redwood Library, Newport, RI
July 10, 2021
This summer Jocelyne Prince presents two works. Including a new site-specific installation for the historic Abraham Redwood summer house.
Library of Amorphous Matter
July 9-October 10, 2021
Rovensky Delivery Room in the Redwood Library
Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Octadic Beacon
Summer 2021-Spring 2022
Opening July 9, 2021
Abraham Redwood’s summer house on the Redwood Library Grounds
(Grounds always open – best viewing is after sundown)
In Library of Amorphous Matter, Jocelyne Prince considers the material properties of glass, an amorphous or non-crystalline solid that is the central protagonist of a fantastical library of cracks, drips and scars. Slide Library (2002-present), exhibited in the Redwood’s Rovensky Delivery Room on custom “athenaeum-like” bookcases, features hundreds of intimately scaled, hand-blown glass slides, attesting to what Prince calls her longstanding “love affair with libraries.”
Outside on the Library grounds, the artist has installed one hundred and ninety-two glass panes in the windows of Abraham Redwood’s eighteenth-century summer house to create the site specific installation Octadic Beacon (2021). The historic structure, illuminated from within as if lit by a fiery hearth, transforms into a radiant edifice: a shining beacon on a hill. Semi-post-pandemic, the stakes of this Puritan image – and whether it can remain an American ideal – feel very timely.
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